strobe lights and blown speakers, fireworks and hurricanes!

At least...that's what my head feels like.
To sound as cliche as the hills...it seems like only yesterday i started off my fourth semester...now i'm facing the scariest finals week of my life...next week!!! I know it's a silly picture but i'm very seriously apprehensive about everything. Thanks to an especially mentally tumultuous month i'm finding myself hopelessly behind...so i am very excited about the next couple of weeks! ten days of no sleep here i come!
I may have to take a couple of incompletes...which i'm not excited about. But i just don't think it's possible for me to do a month of catch up on homework in a quarter of the time along with doing my final projects. oh sigh...

On a lighter note, i've gotten some good work done...my watercolor class has been the source of a lot of that. (to the left...a crummy picture of a one-minute gesture) My "Alec" drawing is coming along swimmingly...lots of work to go, but i'll get it finished. I'm taking a picture of it about every 20 minutes or so...which has been really fun to look back on and see the evolution of the drawing. When it's all done i'll post some of the photos. (:

I went running over the weekend. I know...big freaking deal Colleen. Well it is for me!! I've been wanting to start up again for a long time! I even went out and bought new running shoes. And my legs hurt so bad right now i can't even put said shoes on standing up. Well, it's better since yesterday, but still. I'll be able to go out again tomorrow and very happy about it. really...i am...really.......

okay. I don't think i even need to say i have to get home and do homework, but i need to get home and do homework.

Ich mag allen sie...selbstverstandlich! (ich glaube das ist richtig...)

haha


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a little treat...

This week there was a major event in the world of Tolkien uber-geeks...the publication of yet one more chapter in Middle-Earth history...

The Children of Hurin!!

Tolkien's son, Christopher has been working on it for ages, and there are some very lovely Alan Lee illustrations in it. Click on the link and read about it! I just sold a painting so i decided to treat myself...i went out and bought it yesterday, along with a big book on J.W. Waterhouse. So that was exciting. (:
But that's all for now...most of the money is going toward my trip to Italy in June...which is also pretty exciting as it's getting closer. Two of my friends from LCAD and i are sharing an apartment in Florence...it's going to be amazing. I registered for my fall classes a couple of weeks ago, and i'm torn between apprehension and anticipation for my senior year. It's going to be a lot of hard work...but i'm beginning to get some ideas for what i'm going to focus on for my capstone (basically, the theme of my senior portfolio).

On Sunday I ate a flaming banana with coconut mango ice cream...so gooood...

On Tuesday i went to the senior capstone presentation of my friend Adrienne Stein...her theme was paintings illustrating passages from Song of Solomon...i wish i could have gotten some better pictures (there's bad glare in this photo) because her paintings were exquisitely beautiful. The one on the far right glows like the moon when there is light on it...

And last night i began my final project for my figure drawing class...i've got a 50x38" sheet of drawing paper taped to my wall with newsprint all around it because charcoal is messy. Well, i'm messy with charcoal. I like the drawing so far...i actually got lot of Alec's face done...but you're not allowed to see it yet.(; I'm documenting my process...so it should be interesting.

I've never drawn something this big before so it's scary and fun. I just hope i didn't go too big and that i'll be able to finish it for my final...

Had a very tiring day today...but now i'm going back to my apartment and hopefully get a good night's sleep. But with my drawing to work on, dinner to make and books to read...i'll probably be up pretty late. oh well...

look! it's me blogging this blog right now! crazy...


gotta clean up my paints...


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moments from my week...

Lunch at Saladang Song after prayer last Saturday...

Lovely Sarah...

Lovely Bettina...


Awesome Alec dressed to the NINES for Pip's birthday party...


Easter! Ginger, Joey and Caid...

(and yes, that is Ezekiel bread)



Spitting cloud...


Windy Day...


Reid trying to make his hair look like Tom's...

Yes? No...?


Silly Pip








Okayit'slatenowi'mgoingtobedgoodnight!


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Yes, yes. bunnies are cute. But that's not the point.

Happy Easter...! My favorite holiday...
Today also would have been my grandma's 90th birthday...before she died we were all excited that she would be celebrating it on Easter. I think her celebration today is going to be cooler than ours.



Eat lots of chocolate and pork loin.
that's my plan. Easter egg hunts are cool, too. Pretty weird, but cool. Caid will have one this year, so that should be amazing.



Jesus is alive...

alive...

Father may that i have enough peace to understand it...
if even for a moment...



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